Read the passage. Hanna and Ai-Lin had to wait in line for three hours to buy concert tickets. Then, they had to park a mile away and wait for forty five minutes to get into the stadium. Over one thousand people attended the concert! To correct the punctuation error in the passage, the writer should hyphenate A. "three hours." B. "a mile." C. "forty five." D. "one thousand."

C. "forty five."

Explanation:

The writer is supposed to hyphenate the words forty five like this, forty-five.

Hyphen is a sign (-) used in joining two words together to indicate a singular meaning. In using hyphen, when it comes to numbers in words, there are some rules that are usually being employed. One is that numbers higher that 99 do not need hyphenation. That is one hundred, one thousand and so on are not hyphenated. Second rule is that, hyphens are only used when writing compound numbers in words between 21 - 99, like twenty-one, fifty-two and so on.

the autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

answer a.

the illustration   that would give a reader a clear understanding of the text is a picture of men constructing the frame of a building.the frame is made of iron bars. the text describes the job of blacksmiths'. these were very organised and they had different names: "the driver" and "the heater". the text describes the way in which these men worked ; they worked iron pieces as if they were playing a sport. in fact, the text wants to show the men's skills. the text also puts some emphasis on the use of '' rivets'' in construction. this kind of nails were not always used in the construction of manhattan.

some examples:

"and with an underhand toss he hurled the smoking rivet straight at the catcher, who caught it in mid-air in his catching can." men's skills

"when the driver was ready for a new " the emphasis on the rivet ( special nail used in construction).

" it against a beam to remove any cinders, and jammed it into the waiting hole. " the emphasis on the rivet.